Welcome to Middle Earth Revenge!

Q: What is Middle-earth Revenge?

Middle-earth Revenge (MER) is a project dedicated to preserving MMORPG The Lord of the Rings Online, forever.

Eventually a game's servers are shut down. Writing an emulator for a dead game takes an enormous effort. Why not seize the opportunity and write an emulator while servers are still active?

MER is a community dedicated to LotRO servers reverse-engineering (hence the name - RevEnge). It is a public library for all knowledge, code, tools and whatnot concerned with LotRO server emulation, and a workshop to create more.

Q: Is this legal?

Yes, this is perfectly legal. We're not interfering with official LotRO servers, we're not hosting any LotRO servers of our own, we're not modifying LotRO client, we're not using licensed assets. We're merely analyzing client-server packet exchange which is public information anyway, and prototyping using the information gathered.

Is it illegal to write code and share it with other people? I don't think so.

Q: Isn't this dangerous?

Are WoW emulators dangerous to official WoW servers? If WoW is unharmed, how could LotRO be harmed, granted how minuscule its entire community is compared to WoW?

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